Constituency
260. Bardhaman Dakshin
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2016
WB-BARDHAMAN-DAKSHIN
AITC 47.3%won by 15.2%CPM 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Trinamool Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.8% to 15.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.5% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.0% to 80.5%.
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Electorate
2,41,146
Turnout
80.5%
Valid votes
1,94,096
Margin
29,438
15.17%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1RABIRANJAN CHATTOPADHYAYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC91,88247.3%
- 2AINUL HAQUECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,44432.2%
- 3SAMIR KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND17,2058.9%
- 4PRABAL ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,1928.3%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,3941.7%
- 6MD. HARUNBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6160.8%
- 7PARIKSHIT GORAINSUCI · SUCI1,3630.7%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AITC
- Winner now
- AITC
- AITC–CPM swing
- −4.6%
- AITC share
- 57.7% → 47.3%
- CPM share
- 37.9% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 86.5% → 80.5%